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Notorious b.s.d. posted:less loving terrible than a bus, for only double the cost of a bus! i still love that all of these ~disuptive bus~ startups involve extensively preplanning and reserving seats, unlike a normal bus where you just get on whenever. remember leap transit? http://www.thetransitwire.com/2013/05/31/san-francisco-start-up-offers-private-shuttle-along-muni-route/ remember how it closed a few months later, and their website still claims they'll be back in 2014?
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:less loving terrible than a regular bus, for only double the cost of a regular bus! okay, i am no longer enticed by this idea
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Nintendo Kid posted:i still love that all of these ~disuptive bus~ startups involve extensively preplanning and reserving seats, unlike a normal bus where you just get on whenever. i don't have a problem with private bus lines on the face of it. there's nothing wrong with a private operator securing the necessary licenses and paying the city for the use of bus stops. they're not bad people, just really fuckin dumb. a lot of today's public bus lines were originally privately owned/operated bus and train lines. you'll notice all those private operators are gone. because it's not profitable. ever.
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i take a shuttle bus to logan that's only about $35 round trip and it avoids having to rely on mbta
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Sagebrush posted:itt people seriously argue that it's better to allow people who are totally incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely to continue driving because they might find it inconvenient to sit in an office for a couple of hours one day in ten years i'm sure making licensed drivers who previously passed drivers tests take them again will sure do a lot to filter out lovely drivers the tests themselves are lovely, and they check for knowledge of road rules that americans only follow when they think a cop or driving instructor can see them
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Necc0 posted:i failed the written test the first time i took it. the question that got me was: when are you allowed to make a left turn on red? no what got you were the other 10 questions you missed like "what sign does this octagonal silhouette represent" Notorious b.s.d. posted:road intersections are a terrible, unnecessary hazard. Mido posted:oh good it's hp hovercraft's nightmare: intersection chat
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rjmccall posted:dmv questions come in four kinds: The Ontario MOT also includes a variety of "legal penalties for specific illegal actions" questions because it's not enough to know that you can't pass a stopped school bus, you have to know exactly how many points you'll get on your license and how much you'll get fined when you do
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:no what got you were the other 10 questions you missed like "what sign does this octagonal silhouette represent" Stop. 
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NC required you to be able to identify signs when you applied to convert your out of state license to an in state one. Not multiple choice either, instead it was integrated into one of those eye checking machines. Still a bit annoyed that my answer of "pedestrian crossing" wasn't good enough for the "school crossing" sign. I wanted my perfect score dammit.
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Nintendo Kid posted:i still love that all of these ~disuptive bus~ startups involve extensively preplanning and reserving seats, unlike a normal bus where you just get on whenever. another company is trying to do the same thing on the same route [marina to downtown] but I don't remember the name
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Shifty Pony posted:NC required you to be able to identify signs when you applied to convert your out of state license to an in state one. Not multiple choice either, instead it was integrated into one of those eye checking machines. lol when i converted my out of state license to a MA license all they required was that i take the eye check and pay them one hundred fifteen us dollars
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qirex posted:another company is trying to do the same thing on the same route [marina to downtown] but I don't remember the name is it chariot? http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/10/chariot/ cuz apparently theres multiple
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i was legitimately surprised that the Bridj website lists "Driver" as an open position for hire, rather than a separate site inviting you to Be Your Own Boss as an independent contractor
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in other bay area/train news, they're breaking ground on the nation's first high speed rail line tomorrow in fresno merced to san fernando can't wait 
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Sagebrush posted:The Ontario MOT also includes a variety of "legal penalties for specific illegal actions" questions because it's not enough to know that you can't pass a stopped school bus, you have to know exactly how many points you'll get on your license and how much you'll get fined when you do i've seen questions about how serious various infractions are, but never down to specific point values  ah, cal dmv has a sample test online 4. If you drive faster than other vehicles on a road with one lane in each direction and continually pass the other cars, you will:
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:in other bay area/train news, they're breaking ground on the nation's first high speed rail line tomorrow in fresno so how much of that grey area is actually going to get built
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Sagebrush posted:The Ontario MOT also includes a variety of "legal penalties for specific illegal actions" questions because it's not enough to know that you can't pass a stopped school bus, you have to know exactly how many points you'll get on your license and how much you'll get fined when you do when i moved to washington i turned my g2 into a full license super easily. during the driving test i didn't even make a left turn and was able to decline the super retarded, 'simulate backing out of a driveway by reversing around a corner' manoevre on safety grounds. also my 102 year old great uncle still drives around to the legion and various agricultural vehicle auctions and probably hasn't been tested once in his life. he's a fuckin boss.
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computer parts posted:so how much of that grey area is actually going to get built all, just that the scope of building will extend to 2112
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Nintendo Kid posted:all, just that the scope of building will extend to 2112 
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posting on the sexiest page.
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As a Millennial I posted:posting on the sexiest page. well, now it is 
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rjmccall posted:6. You are driving on a one-way street. You may turn left onto another one-way street only if: IT'S A TRICK
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Jan 5, 2015 20:57
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traffic on the street goes forward, not right or left
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:merced to san fernando san fernando / burbank is at least only a short distance from la. the north end of this is completely useless without further extension i guess you can transfer to amtrak at merced. or go to yosemite
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rjmccall posted:san fernando / burbank is at least only a short distance from la. the north end of this is completely useless without further extension well part of the deal is that it'll eventually be able to also host amtrak long distance trains so they'll go faster through the worse parts of california even though they wont' be "bullet train" fast
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also they're bulldozing a few blocks of sf's chinatown for the north end lol eat poo poo nimby people
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:also they're bulldozing a few blocks of sf's chinatown for the north end wait, why i thought this thing was coming up along an extension of the caltrain line into the new transbay terminal, why would it need anything on the north side of market
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rjmccall posted:dmv questions come in four kinds: as someone who can drive in two states and a district at any time, i just do what seems like the right thing and assume it's okay. it hasn't gotten me a ticket in va yet, so it must be right!
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the written test in my home province was so hilariously easy (all multiple choice with one obvious answer sandwiched between outrageously illegal answers) and people still failed it with regularity. it was an easy way to spot huge huge retards, especially the people who failed it multiple times.
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and when i converted my newfoundland license to a BC license they asked one question (verbally) which was "what does a blinking green light mean" and I said "i don't know be prepared to stop I guess?" and they said literally "close enough" and gave me my license.
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the chinatown leveling is for the muni line, not the high speed rail I thought? the same poo poo that's been tearing up stockton for the last year and change. it turns out those machines can't go backwards so they had to punch out the otherside of the hill, leveling most of chinatown in the process and allowing high rise condo/lofts to be built.
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Beast of Bourbon posted:it turns out those machines can't go backwards so they had to punch out the otherside of the hill, leveling most of chinatown in the process and allowing high rise condo/lofts to be built.
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A neat chinese shopping complex on the outskirts of London got bought out and demolished by a scumbag property developer (but i repeat myself) a few years ago  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_City
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FMguru posted:huh. what a funny coincidence. i know right? so curious that all that land was bought up before the plan was announced! just weird how the world works sometimes, but it's all for the best. chinatown always needed a whole foods!
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Beast of Bourbon posted:i know right? so curious that all that land was bought up before the plan was announced! just weird how the world works sometimes, but it's all for the best. chinatown always needed a whole foods! literally the plot to la noire
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millenials amirite Over the weekend, the young Facebook founder announced that this year he would read a new book every other week. Zuckerberg, whose audacious resolution last year was to learn Mandarin, settled on this new goal after soliciting suggestions from his millions of Facebook followers. On his Facebook page, Zuckerberg created a Facebook group and urged his followers to join his pseudo-book club, which had amassed 137,486 Likes and counting by Monday morning. “I’ve found reading books very intellectually fulfilling,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I’m looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.”
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books are a marvel of the technological age IMO. they require no power, and all you have to do to gain access to all the data inside is simply gain physical access to the device
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uh... books definitely require power to change the text + light the screen.
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